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Now that's a screwy ad...
Feb. 17th, 2010 11:44 amMaybe I saw this wrong
A.k.a. one Japanese ad I'm not sure I want to see again
( a-sailing we will go... )
I'm still gagging at the mixture. Ye olde tall ships, cutlass and sailors and whiskey... OK, I can see a thread of relationship there. But off to work with the dwarves? And the pseudo-pun of "hi-baru" for "hi-ho"? Maybe it's a sign of successful cultural imperialism -- after all, I don't think there's anything in that motley that was particularly Japanese, except the actors.
I think I need to see it at least once more, just to check that they really did that. Maybe I was having a hallucination. Or... maybe I did see it?
A.k.a. one Japanese ad I'm not sure I want to see again
( a-sailing we will go... )
I'm still gagging at the mixture. Ye olde tall ships, cutlass and sailors and whiskey... OK, I can see a thread of relationship there. But off to work with the dwarves? And the pseudo-pun of "hi-baru" for "hi-ho"? Maybe it's a sign of successful cultural imperialism -- after all, I don't think there's anything in that motley that was particularly Japanese, except the actors.
I think I need to see it at least once more, just to check that they really did that. Maybe I was having a hallucination. Or... maybe I did see it?
